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Inside Campus Fortresses, Hong Kong Students Prep for Battle

William Gallo

   HONG KONG - Student protesters are barricading themselves at
   universities across Hong Kong, stockpiling makeshift weapons and
   turning campuses into what look like war zones. It marks a dangerous
   new phase in Hong Kong's 5-month-old anti-government protests.

   Hong Kong Polytechnic University now looks something more like a
   fortress. Hundreds of students have hunkered down, laying bricks to
   obstruct police vehicles they are certain eventually will arrive, and
   setting up multiple levels of security checkpoints. Inside, students
   arm themselves with whatever they can, including arrows, bricks and
   molotov cocktails.

   Hong Kong has seen 24 weeks of protests, but what is taking place here
   is new. Students barricading themselves in at universities, preparing
   for extended confrontations. It's the start of what could be a
   dangerous new phase of anti-government protests."

   WATCH: Inside Campus Fortresses, Hong Kong Students Prep for Battle

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